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April 22, 2020

Kuroneko Pooh san sent me this quite a while ago. But, I couldn’t eat it. It too precious to eat. これ、黒猫ぷーさんがずっと前に送ってくれたものなんだけど、勿体無くて食べれない。 It’s Golgo 13/Sardines. It’s tasteful words play. But, maybe no one knows about Golgo 13 outside of Japan. It is a Japanese manga written by Takao Saitou. ゴルゴ13とサーデインをかけた洒落た言葉遊びですな。でも、多分、ゴルゴ13のことを知ってる人って、欧米にいるのだろうか?これは、さいとう・たかをさんのマンガです。 It has a recipe. レシピが付いてた。 The …

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April 21, 2020

I wonder, did I finished this work? Then, I turn over it the other side which I finished a long time ago. 終わったかなあ、これ?と、思いつつ、裏にひっくり返してみる。裏側は、とっくの昔に終わってたんだけど。 I have been drawing a night sky. But, on the other side, it seems me a white night. So, I need to add more drawings. これ、夜空描いてるんだけど、反対側が、白夜に見えたので、もうちょっと描きたさないとなあ。 Oh~, well….. やれやれ。。。 A sense of …

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April 19, 2020

When I woke up this morning, a gigantic fly was flying and it was annoying. Then I thought it better than I transformed into an insect, like Franz Kafka’s story The Metamorphosis. 今朝起きた時、巨大な蠅が飛んでてうるさかった。で、朝目覚めたら、カフカの「変身」みたいに、虫に変身してるよりはマシ。と、思った。 And it reminded me that I made a freestyle haiku last summer. – Fly Flying Annoying ….I think it was master piece. …

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April 16, 2020

I am doing 100% household chores and errands. Our life doesn’t have an idea of allotment. I do all. Because ダン蔵 is a genius. He can do only his work and he literally can do only his work. So, I don’t demand. 私は家事を100%こなしてます。私達の生活には分担という言葉はありません。私が全部します。それはダン蔵が天才だから。彼は自分の仕事だけ出来て、本当にそれだけが出来るんです。だから、私は要求しません。 A sudden thought; I never had a chance to meet a man …

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April 15, 2020

Because ダン蔵 said he wants to eat something cook with apple. I cooked this today. ダン蔵がリンゴの入ってるなんか食べたい、って言うから、今日はこれ作った。 It is a stir-fried dish with an apple, thin-sliced pork, onion, mushroom, green pepper, garlic with some salt and pepper, dried-tarragon leaves and dash of apple vinegar. リンゴ一個に、薄切り豚肉、玉ねぎ、マッシュルーム、ピーマン、ニンニクを塩胡椒とドライタラゴンとリンゴ酢少々で炒めた。 It was delicious, more than I expected. ダン蔵 enjoyed the dish …

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April 14, 2020

There is a Patisserie Ceci Cela near my apartment. Their croissant is the best in New York! 家の近所にセシセラというお菓子屋さんがあります。彼らのクロワッサンはニューヨークで一番美味しい! Because of the COVID-19, there are so many homeless people on the street. The shelter for the homeless also needs to do the social distance. Many of them can’t stay there. Thus, the homeless couldn’t enter to …

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April 13, 2020

All flower shops were closed. I can get floweres from grocery stores and super markets. But, some grocery stores were stop to carry flowers. If I couldn’t have floweres at home, it would be sad. 全ての花屋は閉まってて、花が買えるのは八百屋かスーパーマーケット。でも、いくつかの八百屋は花を置くのをやめている。もし、花が買えなくなったら淋しい。 Usually, ダン蔵 catches a cold this time of year, but this year, he doesn’t have any. Last year, his …

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